What time is it in French Polynesia right now? 🇵🇫
It is 11:54 am in Papeete right now, Saturday, September 26, 2026. French Polynesia runs on UTC-10, and on 2 further zones besides. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.
Time in French Polynesia now
French Polynesia spans 3 different clock readings across 3 IANA zones, 1 hour apart from end to end. When it is 11:54 am in Tahiti it is already 12:54 pm in Gambier, so "the time in French Polynesia" is a question that needs a region attached to it.
The offset from UTC in Papeete is UTC-10, which is 10 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Papeete is 7:00 pm UTC.
French Polynesia time zones in full
Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. They do not all agree: the spread across French Polynesia is 1 hour.
| Time zone | Time now | UTC offset | Abbreviation | Daylight saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pacific/Gambier | 12:54 pm | UTC-9 | UTC-9 | never moves |
Pacific/Marquesas | 12:24 pm | UTC-9:30 | UTC-9:30 | never moves |
Pacific/Tahiti | 11:54 am | UTC-10 | UTC-10 | never moves |
Does French Polynesia have daylight saving time?
No part of French Polynesia moves its clocks. The offset stays at UTC-10 through the whole year, which means a difference worked out today against French Polynesia is still right in six months. Most of the world now works this way; the daylight saving habit is concentrated in Europe, North America and a short list of others.
A fixed offset makes French Polynesia an easy place to schedule against, with one caveat: the country at the other end of the call may still be moving its clocks, so the gap can change even though nothing changed here. The windows further down this page are worked out at the current instant for exactly that reason.
Where French Polynesia is on the map
The marker is on Papeete, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.
An interactive map of Papeete. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Papeete on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Papeete and major cities
Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.
| City | Time there now | Difference from Papeete |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 2:54 pm | 3 hours ahead of Papeete |
| Chicago, IL | 4:54 pm | 5 hours ahead of Papeete |
| New York, NY | 5:54 pm | 6 hours ahead of Papeete |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 6:54 pm | 7 hours ahead of Papeete |
| London, United Kingdom | 10:54 pm | 11 hours ahead of Papeete |
| Paris, France | 11:54 pm | 12 hours ahead of Papeete |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 11:54 pm | 12 hours ahead of Papeete |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 1:54 am | 14 hours ahead of Papeete |
| Delhi, India | 3:24 am | 15 hours 30 minutes ahead of Papeete |
| Singapore, Singapore | 5:54 am | 18 hours ahead of Papeete |
| Tokyo, Japan | 6:54 am | 19 hours ahead of Papeete |
| Sydney, Australia | 7:54 am | 20 hours ahead of Papeete |
Best time to call French Polynesia
A nine to five working day in Papeete against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Papeete | Window there |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York the US East Coast | 6 hours behind | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
| Los Angeles the US West Coast | 3 hours behind | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
| London the United Kingdom | 11 hours behind | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| Mumbai India | 15 hours 30 minutes behind | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
Daylight hours in Papeete today
In Papeete the sun rose at 5:44 am today and sets at 5:55 pm, giving 12 hours 11 minutes of daylight. The capital is gaining 59 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 11:49 am.
Solar noon in Papeete is 11:49 am, which is 11 minutes before clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 149.56 degrees west while its clock is set to Pacific/Tahiti, plus the equation of time, which today runs 8.8 minutes ahead of mean time.
Moon phase over Papeete tonight
The moon is waning gibbous tonight, 15.8 days into the current lunation, with roughly 99 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on October 25, 2026 as French Polynesia reads the date, at 6:11 pm local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.
Cities in French Polynesia
This site does not yet carry a city page inside French Polynesia, so the readings here are worked out for Papeete and for each zone directly. The zone table above is the authoritative answer for anywhere in the country, because a zone applies to every settlement inside it regardless of whether we list the settlement.
Every IANA time zone in French Polynesia
These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Pacific/Tahiti rather than UTC-10 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.
Convert French Polynesia time to another zone
The converter pages below take UTC-10 against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.
Information about French Polynesia
French Polynesia sits in Oceania, carries the ISO country code PF and a population of about 279,000. Its capital Papeete is at 17.55 degrees south, 149.56 degrees west, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.
Upcoming dates in French Polynesia
Read on French Polynesia's own clock, so the day counts below start from September 26 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Oceania, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.
| Date | Day | What falls on it | Days away |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 21, 2026 | Monday | December solstice, 10:50 am local astronomical | 86 |
| December 25, 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day observed widely | 90 |
| December 26, 2026 | Saturday | Boxing Day or St Stephen’s Day observed widely | 91 |
| December 31, 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Eve observance | 96 |
| January 1, 2027 | Friday | New Year's Day observed almost everywhere | 97 |
| March 20, 2027 | Saturday | March equinox, 10:24 am local astronomical | 175 |
| March 26, 2027 | Friday | Good Friday movable, set by the Easter cycle | 181 |
| March 28, 2027 | Sunday | Easter Sunday movable, set by the Easter cycle | 183 |
| March 29, 2027 | Monday | Easter Monday movable, set by the Easter cycle | 184 |
| May 1, 2027 | Saturday | International Workers' Day public holiday in most countries | 217 |
Sun and moon in Papeete today
The sun is up in Papeete for 12 hours 11 minutes today, from 5:44 am to 5:55 pm. The moon sets in Papeete at 5:37 am and comes up again at 6:16 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.
| Sun | Time in Papeete |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:32 am |
| Nautical dawn | 4:57 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:23 am |
| Sunrise | 5:44 am |
| Solar noon | 11:49 am |
| Sunset | 5:55 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:17 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:42 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:07 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Papeete | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:23 am to 5:31 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:31 am to 6:13 am | 0h 42m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:26 pm to 6:08 pm | 0h 42m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:08 pm to 6:17 pm | 0h 08m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Papeete |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:16 pm |
| Moonset | 5:37 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 15.8 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 378,600 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: French Polynesia and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in French Polynesia, read across 4 other places. Columns are French Polynesia local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| French Polynesia local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| French PolynesiaUTC-10 UTC-10 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 | 5+1 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 | 5+1 | 6+1 | 7+1 | 8+1 | 9+1 | 10+1 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 | 2:30+1 | 3:30+1 | 4:30+1 | 5:30+1 | 6:30+1 | 7:30+1 | 8:30+1 | 9:30+1 | 10:30+1 | 11:30+1 | 12:30+1 | 13:30+1 | 14:30+1 |
No hour on Saturday, September 26, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. French Polynesia and Delhi are 15 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 9:00 am in French Polynesia it is working hours in French Polynesia, Los Angeles and New York, but outside them in London and Delhi. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
French Polynesia spans 3 time zones, so the clock shown is Papeete.
Prayer times in Papeete
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Papeete at 17.55 degrees south, 149.56 degrees west, on the clock of Pacific/Tahiti. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday September 26 | 4:32 am | 5:44 am | 11:49 am | 3:12 pm | 5:55 pm | 7:03 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 4:31 am | 5:43 am | 11:49 am | 3:11 pm | 5:55 pm | 7:03 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 4:30 am | 5:43 am | 11:49 am | 3:11 pm | 5:55 pm | 7:03 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 4:29 am | 5:42 am | 11:48 am | 3:10 pm | 5:55 pm | 7:04 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 4:28 am | 5:41 am | 11:48 am | 3:10 pm | 5:56 pm | 7:04 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 4:28 am | 5:40 am | 11:48 am | 3:09 pm | 5:56 pm | 7:04 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 4:27 am | 5:39 am | 11:47 am | 3:09 pm | 5:56 pm | 7:04 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Papeete, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Papeete
From Papeete the qibla is 295.1 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 25.1 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 18,942 km away, 11,770 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Papeete to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Papeete before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Questions about the time in French Polynesia
- What time is it in French Polynesia right now?
- It is 11:54 am in Papeete as this page was served, Saturday, September 26, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What time zone is French Polynesia in?
- French Polynesia uses 3 zones, from UTC-10 to UTC-9. The capital Papeete is on Pacific/Tahiti at UTC-10.
- What is the UTC offset in French Polynesia?
- UTC-10 in Papeete at this instant, and between UTC-10 and UTC-9 across the whole country.
- Does French Polynesia observe daylight saving time?
- No. French Polynesia stays on UTC-10 all year and does not move its clocks.
- What time does the sun set in Papeete today?
- 5:55 pm, after a sunrise at 5:44 am and 12 hours 11 minutes of daylight.
- When is the best time to call French Polynesia from the United States?
- Between 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm New York time, which is 9:00 am to 11:00 am in Papeete.
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